Product DescriptionBoxset with 17 CDs + 1 LP and 1 Book (Limited 400 set in the world)
*17 CDs covering almost all recordings from RPM/KENT Record catalog with many unreleased tracks.
*180g heavyweight LP record including relatively unknown 14 hard blues tunes taken from his masterpieces and classics.
*56 pages LP jacket size booklet with valuable pictures belonging to the late great photographer, Ernest Withers.
The Founder of P-Vine Records, Yasufumi Higurashi supervised this unprecedented boxset which include his recordings from 1950 - 65 RPM / KENT period, B.B. King's earliest yet finest period of his career.
Each CD has own special concept elaborated by Higurashi's thorough review on existing and unreleased tracks. Total 17 CDs include all SP / Singles that B.B. Kings recorded for RPM/KENT, its outtakes, songs that were released later as LP or CD, rare session scenes, and his final recording session for KENT in December, 1965.
Enjoy the unheard B.B.'s tunes that are tracked down from remained multi tracks that are revived after decades for the first time in the world.
There are total about 100 songs premiered here with 10 completely unreleased songs, its 2 alternate takes, and the incomplete takes.
Enjoy the LP record size booklet with impressive big pictures belonging to the photographer, Ernest Withers who deepened exchange with B.B. Have you seen him standing cool like that?
Enjoy B.B.'s grandeur on the LP that include 14 relatively unknown (which is the point!) hard blues songs from his many masterpieces and classics. These songs are not compiled in CDs.
The music is accompanied by the translated version of "The Arrival of B.B. King" (1980), the world's first book on B.B. King, written by Charles Sawyer (translation by Kazumi Someya).
Plus!! B.B.'s 2 rare promo pictures + postcard set